Ah. So what do they expect you to use?Or do they just leave you to your own devices? To try and figure it out alone?How can they expect any student to study if they don't provide the tools needed for studying...

If they don't even set you up with the Python compiler, they are truly evil.

In my programming classes we always have multiple possible IDEs to choose from on every computer. For example with Haskell we got four, and I went with GHCi (Glasgow Haskell Compiler Interactive) for compiling and coded in Notepad++. For Powershell we got three choices, and I went with ISE (Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment) for both compiling and writing code, occasionally returning to Notepad++ because I'm more used to it.

Well in my programming class all the computers in there have IDLE installed, but the school has multiple different computer labs all over the place, I was just bored in my English class and felt like screwing around with notepad.